Patrick Davey @[email protected]

After having a laugh about it, Jacinda Ardern and I are going to auction a signed copy of the Hansard (official record) of her calling me an “arrogant prick” to raise money for pricks everywhere, a great cause, the Prostate Cancer Foundation. trademe.co.nz/art/nz-artists…

The new #AdventOfCode shirts came out pretty well this year! advent-of-code.creator-spring.com

@timClicks Haven't really yet (she's only 4). Can set up the pieces and then it's just "play". Have had a bit of fun removing all but two of the pieces and pretending the floor is lava (especially for bishops). Great fun when you're on the opposite color and can't be attacked ;)

How did you teach your kids chess?

#30DayMapChallenge Day 28 3D. Huntly Power Station in Waikato, NZ. Data from LINZ Data Service. QGIS, Blender and GIMP.

Curious what it takes to make and run #AdventOfCode every year? Here's a peek behind the scenes: youtu.be/Mb8WwKS6ajk

@rbates Really depends on what it is. If I want to try out a new language for example, I don't think there's much better than @ericwastl's #AdventOfCode.

How do you prefer to learn about programming?

Last night I ate my first 3-D constructed steak, made entirely from plants, at the great Chouchou restaurant in Stockholm. It's astonishing. The texture's exactly right and the taste is excellent. This is *before* we have precision fermented proteins, encapsulated fats and heme.

@maartenballiauw And I'm (of course!) not the first person to think this... lesswrong.com/posts/at8QigBZ… . It would be excellent if you could add an alias to your account so that you could just use the underlying infrastructure but own your own identity..

@maartenballiauw The only issue (and it's a big one unless simple to fix) is that people would still _follow_ your underlying account (ie psdavey@mastodon.social), which isn't _awesome_.

After following this excellent guide to _very simply_ having your own "activity pub" handle (which is what backs mastodon etc.) blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/0… I have changed my handle to patrick@psdavey.com If you own your own domain, it's trivial to setup your own alias.

@tveastman @elonmusk It's illegal here in New Zealand. I hope we do something about it. cc @netsafeNZ

@nashthomas Congratulations! They're lucky to have you :)

Today council has given me the job of Transport Chair. My top priority is a reliable bus service and, to achieve that, I’ll have a laser like focus on building up the driver workforce. I also want to make sure our transport network is accessible and affordable to everyone. 1/4

What a thread about Luxon..

Firing requires a breach of a term in the employee's contract. Even then 2 written warnings are expected. You can lay people off. That requires notice and compensation by local law and written documentation submitted to local governments explaining why the layoffs are necessary.

Elon also asked his remaining employees to work long hours. But for his remaining employees here, doing so requires notifying the local government and the union. There entities have the right to enquire about the necessity of this. So this is another legal breach.

Far out what a thread. Honestly, reading this makes it _clear_ why anyone who's good enough to work at Twitter Scale doesn't have to put up with pushy CEO's and can just walk into a job. Someone who has worked through even a small percent of these issues in production is gold!

@nateberkopec @newrelic @ScoutAPM I haven't used NR in a long time, but, for the small team I work with @datadog has been excellent. We have our own boxes and DD gives much better visibility into what's going on there than NR does (they discontinued that service for small uses), and Scout can't do it.

Datadog is the wrong choice for companies with engineering teams of less than ~50 people. It's too complicated, and it's not ready to use out of the box. @NewRelic or @ScoutAPM remain the best for smaller teams.

i think one of the twitter engineers left a present for elon 💙 back in the day there were these things called "vanity" URLs that very early employees could claim. they were on the root of t.co, twitter's link shortener try visiting this: t dot co/elon

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